Larry Stone, MFT

Locations in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Offices in Santa Cruz County (Soquel) and Santa Clara County (Campbell)

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, dedicated to providing compassionate and supportive counseling and psychotherapy for my clients. I work with individuals for both short term counseling and longer term depth psychotherapy.

As a couples counselor, I provide counseling services for couples dealing with a wide variety of relationship issues, including couples struggling with high conflict or trying to recover from infidelity. I have trained in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples) with Sue Johnson. I also help parents resolve issues or conflicts around their parenting, and develop skills in dealing effectively with their children.

Larry Stone, MFT

I am a "730 Expert", on the Court approved lists for the Family Law Courts in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties for:

Child Custody Evaluation

Brief Focused Assessment (BFA)

Special Master/Parenting Coordinator

Private Mediation

Co-Parenting Counseling

Reconnection Therapy

I am available for Child Custody Evaluations and other Family Court related work throughout California.

I am an experienced private mediator, specializing primarily in divorce and custody issues. I am able to help you develop an effective and appropriate parenting plan, and guide you through the entire divorce process.

I have also trained in Collaborative Divorce, and am available to function as a Divorce Coach or Child Specialist on a Collaborative Divorce team.

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Psychotherapy: Supportive and caring individual psychotherapy to help you work through both current life issues and/or deep and unresolved past trauma. Work with both short term, goal oriented therapy and long term depth psychotherapy, as appropriate for each individual client. Experienced working with survivors of molest and other traumatic child abuse, and clients suffering from post traumatic stress.

Couples Counseling: Work with couples on a wide variety of relationship issues, including those trying to recover from infidelity or struggling with other difficult concerns. Work effectively with couples in all degrees of conflict, including those in high conflict relationships. Trained in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples).

Coparenting Counseling: Accept Court referrals for mandated coparenting counseling, as well as work with divorced parents who are choosing to learn to work together for the sake of their children. Experienced working with parents both during and after divorce, including high conflict adversarial divorce. Effective at helping reduce the level of conflict and helping parents create a healthy working environment as coparents.

Mediation: Experienced as a divorce and custody mediator, helping couples who want to avoid the trauma of high conflict adversarial divorce to peacefully end their marriage and work out effective solutions to minimize the pain for the entire family. This is especially important for the children in the family.

Collaborative Divorce: Trained in the team approach to Collaborative Divorce, and available for participation on a Collaborative team as either a Divorce Coach or a Child Specialist.

Office Addresses and Maps

South Bay - San Jose Area

Located short distances from Hwy 17, Interstate 280, and the San Tomas Expressway, at the intersection of Winchester Blvd and Campbell Ave. Close to Los Gatos, Saratoga and West San Jose, and a short drive from Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and most of San Jose. Handicap accessible.

Santa Cruz

5905 Soquel Dr., Suite 100
Soquel, CA 95073

Located in Soquel in mid Santa Cruz County, This office is about 1/4 mile from the Park Ave. exit of Highway 1. It is very close to both Capitola and Aptos, and only about 4 miles from the foot of Highway 17 and downtown Santa Cruz. It is on local bus routes along Soquel Drive, is handicap accessible and has easy parking.